Comparison principle without strict extrema for the infinity Laplace equation

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Let Ω\Omega be the domain under consideration. Assume that u,vUSC(Ωˉ)u,-v\in\operatorname{USC}(\bar\Omega) and fC(Ω)f\in C(\Omega) satisfy

ΔufΔvin Ω.-\Delta_\infty u\leq f\leq -\Delta_\infty v\quad\text{in }\Omega.

Suppose that either uu has no strict local maximum in Ω\Omega or vv has no strict local minimum in Ω\Omega. No-extrema comparison conjecture. Then

maxΩˉ(uv)=maxΩ(uv).\max_{\bar\Omega}(u-v)=\max_{\partial\Omega}(u-v).

This would yield a comparison principle under the stated one-sided absence of strict extrema and, in particular, would support uniqueness for the Dirichlet problem when the source term is nonnegative or nonpositive. The source presents it as a conjecture motivated by a preceding comparison theorem; its resolution is not established in the supplied text.

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Scott N. Armstrong and Charles K. Smart, “A finite difference approach to the infinity Laplace equation and tug-of-war games”, arXiv:0906.2871 (2011).

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